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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Republic.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Oligarchy.

2. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?
(a) France's needs.
(b) The people's needs.
(c) Rousseau's needs.
(d) Hobbes' ideas.

3. What does Rousseau encourage the youth to look forward to?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Political power.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Mild pleasures.

4. According to Rousseau, who is forced to follow what men are doing?
(a) Their spouses.
(b) Other countries.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their neighbor.

5. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?
(a) Easy to access.
(b) Open.
(c) A ghetto for rich people.
(d) Dictatorial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say men can do in the present?

3. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?

4. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?

5. What does Rousseau argue does not enter into consideration when a nation is formed by men?

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